LaLonde {FindIt}

National Supported Work Study Experimental Data

Description

This data set gives the outcomes a well as treatment assignments and covariates for the National Supported Work Study, as analyzed in LaLonde (1986).

Format

A data frame consisting of 12 columns (including a treatment assignment vector) and 2787 observations.

outcome	integer	whether earnings in 1978 are larger than in 1975	0,1
treat	integer	whether the individual received the treatment	0,1
age	numeric	age in years
educ	numeric	education in years
black	factor	black or not	0,1
hisp	factor	hispanic or not	0,1
white	factor	white or not	0,1
marr	factor	married or not	0,1
nodegr	factor	an indicator for no high school degree	0,1
log.re75	numeric	log of earnings in 1975
u75	factor	unemployed in 1975	0,1
wts.extrap	numeric	extrapolation weights to the 1978 Panel Study for Income Dynamics dataset

Source

Data from the National Supported Work Study. A benchmark matching dataset. 1975 earnings are pre-treatment.

References

LaLonde, R.J. 1986. “Evaluating the econometric evaulations of training programs with experimental data."" American Economic Review, Vol.76, No.4, pp. 604-620.